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December 12, 2009 - By Bill Quigley, Center for Constitutional Rights

December 9, 2009 - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media The bad news is that the more than one out of three young blacks out ofwork matches the figure for joblessness at the peak of the 1930s GreatDepression. The worse news is that the jobless figure for young blacks,especially young black males, is not much different from what it waseven before the economic meltdown. During the Clinton era economicboom, the unemployment rate for young black males was double -- and in

December 7, 2009 - By Jake Bernstein, ProPublica After a brief holiday respite, bankfailure Friday came back with a vengeance. The FDIC and itsfellow regulators closed six institutions, bringing the total to 130

November 6, 2009 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Last spring, when the ink was barely dry on the $787 billionAmerican Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), there was alreadyconcern about an emerging frenzy of lobbying on behalf of corporationsseeking a slice of the stimulus pie.

November 5, 2009 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest I admit it -- the Dirt Diggers Digest is guilty of focusing on the badnews about corporate misdeeds. So in this post I will write aboutsomething positive: activist groups that are succeeding in changingcorporate behavior for the better. The occasion for this shift in emphasis is the recent announcementof the winners of the BENNY awards, which are given out by the Business Ethics Network.

November 4, 2009 - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson,

November 3, 2009 - By Jordan Flaherty, Justice Roars